Saturday, July 31, 1993 - Baltimore

Finally got to Baltimore! We were able to sail most of the way. What a delightfully cool day! Roy actually put on long pants and a windbreaker.
This is a very busy harbor. We had our hands full dodging freighters and sailboats. The little sailboats were the worst; they would cut perpendicularly across the channel. We were under power by that time, so we had to get out of their way.
There was a sailboat regatta going on, but it was out of the way.
We went right by Fort McHenry and a red, white, and blue buoy that marked the location of the boat Francis Scott Key was on when he wrote the "Star Spangled Banner".
We heard "Jofian" being hailed on the VHF by a boat named "Seagull", but when we responded, there was no answer. Now we're baffled; we have no recollection of a boat by that name and have no idea who might have been calling us or why.
We didn't think we'd be able to find a berth in the Inner Harbor, but we headed in that direction anyway to check it out. To our surprise, we found a marina with plenty of room and low rates. It's called Lighthouse Point Marina, because there's a tall blue and white lighthouse next to it. We're only paying $75 a week, including electricity, which is less than we'd pay for two days at the Inner Harbor Marina or the Harbor View Marina. It's a nice place, too, with floating docks, plenty of big cleats, and good showers. However, the dockside electrical outlets are all 50 amps. Our plug is 30 amps, so Roy had to go get an adapter. There's an inexpensive water taxi, called the Harbor Shuttle, that comes by here and takes you anywhere in the harbor you want to go, so Roy rode it.